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Some callers have been using "alternative" music for patter music at square dances.
What do I mean by "alternative patter music"?
I am talking about any music which has regularly and successfully been used as patter music, and yet is not produced by one of our square dance labels. Instead it was created for other listeners, sometimes for other dance forms, and it just happens that we can use it for patter music.
Why the emphasis on patter music instead of singing calls?
Patter music can be less structured than singing call music, giving a much larger range of music from which to choose. Often our patter music is more drab and boring than our singing call music. Sometimes this is necessary so that the dancers won't get distracted by the music. However, sometimes it is nice to let accomplished dancers dance to a good piece of music. Music from outside the normal square dance arena is another way of providing variety, getting away from boom-chuck, certain instrumentation, and other constraints we impose upon ourselves.
Recently I was calling in the L.A. an area caller complained to me, in not a nice way, of the patter music, I use alternative like many of us do now, and that we need to stick to country music to preserve the activity. NONSENSE!!!!!!!!! At the same dance a lady came up to me, she was early 50's maybe,(my age) and told me how much she loved the music I was using and she likes callers who use that type of music. I had done a few songs from the 60's -70's- Love is in the Air- Help me Rhonda-(Beach Boys)- Love is all around- Your the one that I want-Lovin Spoonfill.... She was a fairly new dancer and appreciated songs from her era. I told her this activity must evolve or we will not survive. She said thank you for saying that she had said the same thing to others. I picked songs that I thought would please that particular crowd that night.Cal's response:
I have used many different kinds of music over the last 54 years of calling. I started out with the traditional tunes like Soldier's Joy and Cripple Creek played with a fiddle and a bass. I cheered when people like Ed Gilmore added piano, banjo and drums. Over the years, I have explored many ways to provide music that could be used for square dancing and the other dance forms that use the 4,8,16, 32, 64 beat structure of music. In my case, that also includes waltz, 80, and 96 beat tunes. These days I buy CDs with Blue Grass and Celtic music that really stir my soul.
I have explored many recommendations of alternative music. I have even spent a considerable amount of time working with waveforms of music I loved to listen too, but I could never figure any way to square dance to. Here are my conclusions.
Square dancing is built around a structure of movements that typically fit within 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 steps. The music must then conform to the same structure. The music that works the best is based on a structure of a tune that carries on for two melody lines that have 32 beats of music. The first melody is played twice and the second melody is played twice. AABB.
A lot of alternative music I review, these days, is built around loops of 2-4 beats that don't even have a theme or melody. Just a pounding repetition of sounds. I went to a state SD convention recently where many callers used alternative music. After a while, every recording sounded basically the same to me. The same 2-4 beat loops that are used in Garage Band and other computer programs. To me, it was boring, boring, boring.
Much alternative music, these days, is written to appeal to people who enjoy places where the music is extremely loud and no one expects to carry on any conversation. The dancing consists of largely primitive jerks and sways. The dance movements are choreographed by the individual and have no correlation with the action of any partner. Does this sound like anything remotely connected to square dancing?
If you want to appeal to people who want this kind of music, it's certainly your choice. However, this population of people is limited in size. Probably more limited in size than the population who like a broader range of music.
Every dance form has the music that attracts the people who enjoy that music. Square dancing has enjoyed a much wider range of music than most. Right now, I think the "alternative branch" of music some of you are trying to force on the MWSD world will only accelerate the continuing decline of interest in square dancing.
I (Clark Baker) wanted to include Cal's comments in this document as a warning and to temper the enthusiasm some may have over alternative patter music.
Would somebody please share some tips of CDs of instrumental, upbeat celtic style music? I have looked River Dance etc. but find the tap dancing on the soundtrack too distracting. I have been looking to add that music style to my tool box for a long time.I have had success in using the following for contra dancing. Some of them may be suitable for MWSD patter music.
Several callers who use alternative music as part of their patter calling will demonstrate how they use this music and the effect it has on the dancers. We often hear that callers need to use different, and more modern music to attract younger dancers. This music has been successfully used by these callers as one tool to entertain dancers of all ages. Perhaps you will come away with a new appreciation for this different side of our music.
Tapes, CD's, and MP3's of this session are available from Convention Tapes International 1-800-747-6334.
Be aware that the master tape has some recording problems. There is a background hum and the actual music examples with calling are grossly overdriven resulting in a distorted and very bassy recording. The presenters' commentary is just fine.
Ask for Callerlab 2003, tape #30 - Alternate Music Session.
I will fill in information about their presentations ASAP after Callerlab. -- Clark
At this year's convention there was an after-banquet dance at which each of the following callers presented several music selections. Here are the callers, the music they presented, and a more detailed description of their music and philosophy.
An unintended result at this session was some outstanding choreography (mostly Mainstream, some Plus) and high energy dancing resulting from the synergy of the music, the callers and a super square of dancers. I recommend getting the tape, dancing it, and researching some choreo.
There were two goals for this session:
Overall, I look for a song with a distinct regularly occurring chorus and that isn't offensive to the general population which in today's music can be difficult. I try to vary my selections to different decades instead of concentrating on just my own but I have to like the piece of music. If I can't get into it, I shouldn't expect my dancers to.
This had a driving beat that hooked me the first time I heard it. Most people know it, and if not, they all know the chorus. This is probably one of the fast moving songs I have. Played at 45, it's enough to tire the kids out, but they love this one.
Too popular to not be included. Again, a driving beat that gets everyone's toes tapping and it won a grammy. Again, this thing can move pretty quick, which is why they like it.
This is beautifully smooth piece of music. lots of instruments you don't normally hear. It's a great travel back to the 70's without getting to heavy into the disco. I play this right at 45 as this is at almost perfect dancing speed.
This has a wild opening that gets people wondering what it is going to happen. As this is a remake of the original, and a better one in my mind, everyone knows the tune.
One of John's earlier works for those who remember when he started. One of his biggest and it works well. I play this slightly faster than recorded to keep up the pace.
Who doesn't know this? This is actually the "disco" version that was released the same year the original movie came out. I play this slightly faster than recorded. The audience always seems to love this one, plus I'm a huge Star Wars fan.
Similar to the Star Wars piece, this is one of those compilation disco versions. Kind of like the "Hooked on..." series of music. This one centers around the Beatles and the 60's allowing us to drift back with the music while maintaining the driving bass of the 80's. This is a right at 45'er. A nice sing-along tune that I use often as the last patter of the night. In addition, it's on pink vinyl, which leads right into Pink Cadillac.
Again, another grammy award winner. This is hugely popular and it adds a Latino flavor into the program. I have to play this at around 50 RPM, but the music holds together very well.
This is a REALLY laid back piece of music. This is a "gimmick" piece for me. I use with this song and get everyone to "weave to the La-La's". If you know the piece, and even if you don't, the la-la'd chorus section is always familiar. People like to sing along, and I make a game out of trying to get them into a weave the ring in time to sing.
The joke here is "it's all in the punctuation." Pause and think about it. Anyway, I'll make sure I sing along with Shania, particularly during that title. The people that turn and look at me funny are the ones that are really paying attention. This is another 45'er for me.
As popular as "Turn the Beat Around" and it's on the flip side. A two for one deal. Same drive as the other Gloria tune and it move's. Slightly slower than recorded usually helps people succeed with this piece.
This is good, if nothing else because of the title. It's a little slower than the rest, even at 45, but it's a nice one to warm up to getting used to something other than patter, or a nice choice to wind down to something different.
If it's even-tempo, 4/4 (or 4/4-ish, as jigs are), and within about 20bpm of 128, I can probably use it.
If it's the right tempo (124-128, tending slower), I record directly to mini-disc. Otherwise, I digitize it (or rip the CD track from an audio CD directly to a file), and play it back into my MD recorder at the right tempo.
I have a lot of music that is suited only for "good" dancersthe ones who can find the beat without having it driven into them with a sledge hammer. I've a piece or two of that in here, but use it with care.
I heard this years ago, and immediately wanted it it as a patter record. I'd prefer to have a stronger drum background, as some dancers complain that they can't find the beat in it. This is good happy-but-slowing-down-a-bit music.
Found this at a CALLERLAB convention vendor. My original got stolen, but a call to Folkraft got me a replacementit's still in print. Great lively, klezmer feel. Raises the floor's temperature noticably; some dancers get distracted by the music, or break into spontaneous hora.
I have a bunch of other Klezmer-style music; people sometimes can't figure out what to make of it, as they aren't familiar with the idioms.
Neat rendition of a tango classic by a latin group; I found this on a CD purchased for home listening (and I haven't worked up the nerve to try their version of "O Holy Night" as a cha-cha!)
Turk was a fixture of the SF jazz community years ago; this was off one of his CDs. It's lively, up-beat crowd-lifter.
I heard Mike Jacobs use a Dick Jones S/D 45 with the tune; unable to find the 45, I went looking for CDs with this on it. Originally a piano rag, this is now a dixieland jazz standardand a swinging dixieland version carries dancers along.
I browse all the genres of music on MP3.COM; this one show up in the Middle-Eastern/Jewish section. It's percussion only, a walking macsoum of north-African origin.
I have a few songs that I classify in the "psychological warfare" categorybecause they're so distracting that dancers have trouble. This is one such song; the first evening I put it on, the floor dissolved because dancers were so caught up in the music that they couldn't listen to the calls.
It's a whimsical piece, sounding kind of like "funeral March of a Marionette" at the beginning, then breaking into the familiar tune.
It's good for the last night of a convention, when dancers need something to lift them out of exhaustion.
From MP3.COM, this is a French-inspired piece. The rhythm is a bit odd-ball, but not bad enough to bother dancers. The strangeness DOES generate interest.
A Celtic folksong with a heavy percussion backing. I have a bunch like this, and you can't use too many in an evening or people start to wilt under the weight of the music.
They all make a nice change from regular S/D music, being much more akin to what you'd hear at a live-band Contra dance. Some have strong percussion, so the beat is easy to find; others don't, and you have to use them with dancers who don't need the musical lead.
This is sort of a guitar version of Orange Blossom Special, though the tune isn't really the same. It has the same driving feel to it.
Lisa Greenleaf claimed this was a jig, but it's a tarantella. The brightness of the music lifts dancersbut the piece is repetitive enough that I've had complaints from a few people.
I got this of a used Polka LP, along with a version of Lichtensteiner Polka. I use both. The tune is familiar, so people sort of "march" along with it, then get carried into the polka rhythm. Moderately crowd lifting, I'd use this most any time.
I have several other polkas, some from the MP3 site. They work well as mildly-uplifting music.
I have two versions of this. One was "researched" from another caller; it's the more fully orchestrated version. While it feels like a relaxing piece of music, it has enough oomph to keep people from dragging.
The second version has pan flutes in it; it's a softer, more down rendition, good for cooling a crowd.
Techno-bagpipe music by the Yakoo Boyz, a defunct Canadian group. I have two versions. The full version has a long percussion intro, and lends itself to a staccato style of calling, with lots of short calls.
The second version is essentially the center part of version 1, and is more suited to a regular calling style.
Both are pretty fast (128bpm), so they tire dancers out even as they drive people along.
This is the Temptations' version of "Moscow Nights", a Russian folk song. It was slowed from 160pbm, so everything sounds muted. I find it relaxes dancers, as it sounds slower than it is, and is in a minor key. A few folks know the words to the song!
From a CD of Sousa Marches, speeded up from 116 to 124. People usually recognize this as the theme music from the Monty Python TV show.
The music has repeated climaxes, when the chimes ring, and they're good points to aim for resolution (no, I can't describe how I do that; I can't do it reliably).
This is a pop 45 of the TV-show theme song, speeded up from 108pbm. Dancers find it funny, but tend to get sugar poisoning if it is overused.
A fine fiddle rendition of the stereotypic chicken music. If you get dancers in the right mood, they'll start doing wing-flapping as they promenade home.
A Celtic standard, the percussion in this version is provided only by hand claps and the foot-stamping of step dancers. This works well with dancers who don't need a strong beat.
Starts out with a seemingly-beatless Flamenco feel, then the beat cuts in. Dancers sway with the music.
Another MP3 find. This music is even-tempo, but is syncopated and has the pitch slide up and down so it SOUNDS like the tempo is varying. This is another in the novelty category of "psych warfare tools".
MP3 again, from a Texas dance band. This moves from a fine 4/4 piece of dance music into Wildwood Flower, which is in 10/4, and back again. People don't seem bothered by the oddball rhythm.
It's a good starter for an evening, as it's upbeat without overheating.
from WWF: The Music Vol. 5. This is the entrance music for Kurt Angle, who won an Olympic gold medal in wrestling before turning pro.
Extended play on vinyl by Reba McIntire, MCA 12-55795 and the cut is the Classic Paradise Instrumental.
By D.J.Leary, on MPS, http://www.mp3ireland.com/djleary/
by Kenny G, Breathless, Arista 18646-2, needs to be speeded up from original.
By Outback on the album Dance The Devil Away.(C)1991 Rykomusic/Rykodisc ..basically done by digeridoo and other instruments..on Amazon
This same music is now available on a square dance label. Check out Right (RR 309)
By Engelbert Humperdinck, on CD Line Dance Fever #8, label Curb Entertainment International Corp.
By the Vengaboys on the CD single Shalala Lala, label Breakin' Records.
The Other Side, EMI 7243 5 29407 2 1, available only in Europe, Recorded in Spain.
By the Bahama Mama's, Single CD with 5 variations of the mix, Truly Hip Recordings 59057-1211-2, by National Music Distributors P.O.Box 1217 Ft. Lee, NJ 07024 this is the instrumental cut.
By Kenny Baker & Bill Monroe from New Country #1194D (hard to find) but new version by Mark O'Connor, Heroes on Warner Bros. 9 45257-2 is very similar.
By Dario G , Sunmachine, on Kinetic/Reprise 9 47019-2, there is also a single available sometimes but must be ordered also.
By Ann Lee; on the CD single named 2 Times, label SWEMIX Records.
By Jakaranda; on the CD Parent Trap (Soundtrack)
By Gloria Gaynor; Karaoke version (more information needed here).
By Eiffel 65. The original version is on Europop, but I used an instrumental version and don't remember from where it came. John Knight uses the version from a Karaoke disk ( March 2001 Chartbuster Male Pop, disk number CBCDG40085).
What are my favorites out of this list for general hash for the typical S/D club group? Glad you asked!
This number has strong beat, lots of energy, interesting breaks, a key change and a dramatic ending. All of it is usable. The driving beat makes energetic dancers step lively while providing all dancers with a consistent and strong rhythm to dance to. Like "Children", a little planning and good familiarization with the piece can allow one to use it in a dramatic fashion.
An added bonus is the tune comes on the CD as needed. No assembly required!
This is a smooth and haunting tune that builds from a mellow beginning. I trimmed the ending and then repeated a portion using CoolEdit 2000. Groups that dance well otherwise will dance very fluidly to this. The build from beginning to end can create a great amount of excitement, especially if the caller goes with it. Various points of dramatic change in the music can be used to begin sequences and figures like Grand Square and using the ending (as I've edited it) can put the icing on the cake!
Lots of callers using this one. Lots of energy, great fiddle work, strong vocals, nice ending, great fun
Very like Cotton Eyed Joe, lots of energy, great fiddle work, strong vocals, nice ending, great fun
Strong Beat, High energy. I removed the vocal sections.
Busy, Young. Great for younger groups, dance parties or just something different.
Lots of energy, strong beat. I removed the vocals, and since it was so long, what was left was plenty.
Very Busy, strange distracting vocals, young. I have used this for the first tip of a dance party (one nighter).
Very strange arrangement (Hey! What do you expect for a Nightmare!). Syncopated rhythms. No recommended for typical "hash" use.
Strong beat. Good energy. Latin vocals. A talking vocal break I've removed.
Good beat and upbeat feel. Lilting vocals, that (IMHO) don't get in the way - So, I left them. A little experience with this piece finds one using the pauses between vocals to do calls, allowing the dancer to dance through the vocals. Nice ending. Like "Another Way", no editing was required.
I would not recommend this tune for a "let's get deeper" tip. I like using it for flowing, standard application choreography and keeping everyone moving.
A guitar variation of the classic "Yackety Sax". Dated but timeless.
Mellow and smooth. I use this with my exhibition group, wouldn't use it as a general hash.
Mellow but good beat. I've used it for a hash with certain groups. Not for everyone.
A disco/R&B kind of sound. Good beat, vocals - not distracting. Interesting transitions.
A good tune to use if you want to do a bunch of longer calls in a tip and let them listen to the music. Good beat, a bit mellow in an energetic way.
A modern dance version of the old Rock 'N Roll tune. Strong vocal.
Strong lead instrumentation. Measured beat, smooth.
Oh, yes, that scratching electric guitar work. Good beat and energy. Stuttering transitions.
The early '80's synthetic electric sound. Good beat and energy.
Big orchestra sound with good continuous beat.
Capoeira music (from Brazil) including Zoom Zoom Zoom which is used on the Mazda TV commercial.
I use a lot of music that I've researched from other callers, and I've also "discovered" music that other callers are using, so some of my favorites are already listed. Here, I've tried to list music that I use that others haven't already mentioned.
Hooked on Polkas, Joey Miskulin and the International Festival Orchestra: I like the variety of tunes included in the medleys on this CD. However, because the medleys are so long, I edited one down to about 10 minutes (still a little long). The dancers recognize most of the tunes.
Hine Ma Tov, Shawn's Kugel: Very jazzy. I edited this to cut off beginning and ending vocals.
Green Onions, Dave "Baby" Cortez. I've slowed this down to a square dance tempo (the original is about 140 bpm). I got this off a CD sold by Palomino Records, Wolfman Jack's Rock 'n' Roll Instrumentals. There are some other cuts that can be used, including Last Night and Wipe Out (major slow down needed).
Happy Together, Phil Leadbetter off his Philibuster CD. I know there are square dance versions of this old Turtle's song, but I really like this version.
Hawkeye, Alan Parsons Project, from the Vulture Culture CD.
I've been playing around with MIDI tunes recently, and have found some interesting ones in unexpected places.
Here are two that I found while listening to Band In a Box sample styles:
Drivin' Honktonk: I like the way it alternates between pretty laid back, and more driving.
Top 40 Med Latin: It's short, but has a fun Latin beat.
Here are some others that I like (remember, MIDI sound is totally dependent on what kind of sound synthesizer you have on your computer; a MIDI is not a sound file; it's more like a piano roll for a player piano):
Dance the Samba with Me
American Pie: I changed the lead instrument on this one, using a shareware music editing program called Melody Assistant.
Let the Music Play: Not a bad arrangement. of the original club dance mix.
I regularly listen to dixieland jazz and boogie-woogie. I've recorded all my favourite songs from CD to MP3. I've tried tweaking the tempo of many songs to see if they'll work for square dancing. You might not realize it, but many 'fun' songs used for square dancing are from dixieland jazz (e.g., Bill Bailey, Alabama Jubilee, I Found A New Baby, etc.).
by Fire House Five Plus Two, an old dixieland jazz band that regularly performed at Disneyland's Golden Horseshoe Review. In fact, the band was formed by Disneyland employees who wanted to have a little extra fun.
This song is recorded at 115 beats per minute. I changed it to 126.
It's available on a double-CD from Good Time Jazz 2GTJCD-22055-2. I purchased mine from Fantasy Inc.
by Rob Rio, a Los Angeles-based boogie-woogie/barrelhouse/blues performer. Rob Rio is the leader of our favourite Swing Dance band. We have all of his (4) CDs.
This song is recorded at 149 beats per minute. I slow it down (without changing the pitch) to 129 beats per minute. Dancers love dancing to this one, and I often get requests for it.
It's on the Swing Train CD, available from Boss Productions, PO Box 10016, Canoga Park, CA 91309.
by the Banjo Kings
This song is recorded at 114 bpm. I speed it up to 120 bpm.
I purchased mine from Fantasy Inc.
by Fire House Five Plus Two.
This song is recorded at 112 bpm. I speed it up to 125 bpm. This song has vocals that you have to work around (or work in). It's on the same CD as "Pagan Love Song".
First track - a remix version of Bette Midler's In These Shoes off of the CD Maxi-Single of the same name. There are 7 tracks of the same song. I used track #3 "Mark's Heels to Platforms Vocal Mix" - which I ripped to my computer and digitally sped up without changing the pitch. I found the CD while browsing in a music store, but this listing on amazon.com is probably the same CD.
Second track - from a CD titled Karaoke 80's found on amazon.com right here track number #9 Word Up. Again, I adjusted the speed. A couple of other tracks on this CD also work for patter.
Contact info: email email@example.com & web site http://www.moveto.com/sd/
|Artist / Album
|100% Fatt
|2 Fatt
|The Block
|Bump 'n Hustle
|Down to the Bone
|Joyce Cooling
|Christy Lane
|Cotton-Eyed Joe
|Christy Lane
|Two Times
|Christy Lane
|Club Charles
|Bona Fide
|Coming Up For Air
|David Benoit
|Cry of the Celts
|Lord of the Dance
|Down the Village
|Evil Ways
|Fuzzy Logic
|David Benoit
|Ghost Riders Techno
|Bossacucanova & Roberto Menescal
|Hold On to Your Love
|The Horse You Came In On
|Bona Fide
|London Lowdown
|Ronnie Jordan
|Long Way From Brooklyn
|Down to the Bone
|Low Rider
|Mind the Gap
|Bossacucanova & Roberto Menescal
|Never As Good As the First Time
|New Dehli
|Ronnie Jordan
|Oye Como Va
|Peter Gunn
|Blues Brothers
|The Poe House
|Bona Fide
|See What Happens
|Short Island Iced Tea
|Smooth Operator
|David Benoit
|Stax of Sax
|There's No Wonder
|Too Sexy
|Right Said Fred
|Too Sexy (with vocals)
|Right Said Fred
|Walkin' on the Sun
|Jeff Golub
|Willie Don
|Bona Fide
|Alligator Alley
|Cold Duck Time
|Jeff Golub
|Cold Sweat
|Jeff Golub
|Hooked on Classics Medley
|Hooked on Classics
|In Deep
|Marion Meadows
|In the House
|Jimmy Sommers
|Promise Me
|Jimmy Sommers
|Riverside Drive
|Kim Waters
|Show Me, Show Me
|Marion Meadows
|South Chicago
|Marion Meadows
|Tales of a Gypsy
|Marion Meadows
|Two to Tango
|Vanessa Dhou
|Kim Waters
|X-Ray Hip
|Bona Fide
|You Are the One For Me
|Kim Waters
|Warren Hill
|Morning Dance
|Spyro Gyra
|Spyro Gyra
I look for alternative music specifically to appeal to a wider, non-dancing audience and to newer dancers in class. Using alternative music at public demonstrations allows non-square dancing observers to see square dancing in a more contemporary light, helping break the stereotype of "an old barn dance". Radically different or very current music to which people can square dance piques the interest of non-dancers. This helps prime people for new dancer class solicitations. Modern Square Dancing can be viewed as something more "cool" and less "hillbilly".
I use alternative music in all my groups, but especially in the newer dancer classes. These dancers are most open to new kinds of music because they are less set in the "traditional" style. They are also the best recruiters for the next new dancers and point out the music as one aspect of why they enjoy Square Dancing.
In looking for alternative music, I search for music with the following criteria:
I also choose instrumental music or instrumental portions of music. I don't like calling over someone else's vocals, as I must lower the volume significantly to make the calls distinctive.
When I record, or "rip" music from a CD or record, I use CoolEdit 2000 software on my computer. With this software I can eliminate sections of music, change speed, tempo or pitch, convert to mono, and save as MP3. It's available from Syntrillium (www.syntrillium.com) for about $65. Visit their website for a free demo download. I always adjust the tempo to 128 BPM. Dancers generally have a very narrow range of tempo that they feel comfortable dancing. Fine tuning the speed during playback can be accomplished through the plug in software on the MP3 player.
Finally, remember to fulfill your professional, ethical, and legal obligation to purchase or own the original music. Share mixes with friends, but make sure you own the originals and your friends do, too.
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I just struggled a bit with getting xVM's host interface networking up and running on Ubuntu. It works now and maybe somebody else finds the following short how to useful.
Host Setup
Run "sudo aptitude install bridge-utils".
Add the following lines to /etc/network/interfaces:
auto tap0 iface tap0 inet manual tunctl_user user # replace "user" with the user name running xVM uml_proxy_arp sativex-ub auto br0 iface br0 inet static address 10.10.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 bridge_ports tap0 bridge_maxwait 0
Run "service networking restart". (or "/etc/init.d/networking restart" if your Ubuntu doesn't have the service command yet)
Run "sudo VBoxAddIF vbox0 user br0". (like above, change "user" to your xVM user)
In your VM settings choose "Attached to: Host Interface", as "Interface Name" in the field below enter "vbox0". If you want to have Internet access in your VM you should also configure a second network interface, pick "Attached to: NAT" there.
VM Setup
Start up your VM, and add the following lines to /etc/network/interfaces:
auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.10.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 auto eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp
Run "service networking restart".
That's it, your VM should now be accessible (from your host) via 10.10.1.2. Of course you can adjust the IP addresses/networks as you like.

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Daryl Lowery
- Career Highlights
- CD Instant!Groove on dml/jazz label
- Currently touring and recording with Al Kooper
- Performances with Blues After Dark, Anthony Braxton, Jackie Byard, the Greg Hopkins 16-Piece Jazz Orchestra, Dizzy Gillespie, the Ellis Hall Group, Rufus Reid, the Urban Renewal Band, and others
- Recordings with Ran Blake
- Education
- B.M., New England Conservatory of Music
- B.M.Ed., New England Conservatory of Music
- M.S., University of Massachusetts
In Their Own Words
"I grew up in a musical family. My father was a woodwind player and my mother taught piano—she started teaching me when I was five. I started playing saxophone in third or fourth grade, and started bass guitar in junior high school because I wanted to play in a rock band. In high school my best friend was a bass player and we started a band together, so since then I've played mostly sax and flute."
"My playing is rooted in African American styles: jazz, R&B, and funk. But for fun I listen to classical music and rock, including stuff I grew up on, like Led Zeppelin and the Who. I also have a graduate degree in software engineering, but in my computer applications class I teach that technology is not an end in itself—it's a tool to make our life easier when we make music."
"I'm a very active performer and still practice my instrument several hours every day, just like I did when I was younger. The things that I learn when I'm practicing I share with my students. I also have a fairly structured practice routine that I teach my students; I want to make sure they know the most efficient and powerful way to benefit from the time they spend."
"Music, in my mind, is the best expression of what it means to be a human being; I would like my students to go away appreciating how important it is to understand that. And, because music is so important, out of respect for it we should work and develop ourselves as much as we can, so we can contribute as much as we are capable of."


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Success Stories (Paperback)
Harper Perennial, 9780060927196, 208pp.
Publication Date: April 26, 1996
In Sucess Stories, an exceptionally varied yet coherent collection, Russell Banks proves himself one of the most astute and forceful writers in America today. Queen for a Day, Success Story, and Adultery trace fortunes of the Painter family in there pursuit of and retreat from the American dream. Banks also explores the ethos of rampant materialism in a group of contemporary moral fables. The Fish is an evocating parable of faith and greed set in a Southeast Asian village, The Gully tells of the profitability of violence and the ironies of upward mobility in a Latin American shantytown, and Chrildren's Story explores the repressed rage that boils beneath the surface of relationships between parents and children and between citizens of the first and third worlds.
About the Author
Russell Banks, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, is one of America's most prestigious fiction writers, a past president of the International Parliament of Writers, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been translated into twenty languages and has received numerous prizes and awards, including the Common Wealth Award for Literature. He lives in upstate New York and Miami, Florida.


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Get a group of top advisors in a room for an hour and you have just enough time to get through one question. That's what happened recently when Denver-based managed account provider Curian Capital invited AdvisorOne to an exclusive roundtable discussion with a sampling of the reps and broker-dealers with which it partners.
Passion to do right by their clients was immediately palpable and each rep had a lot to say. Not surprisingly, current events initially dominated the discussion, but comments soon veered into longer term retirement planning, behavioral economics and retaining client trust after the events of 2008.
Firms that were represented include Commonwealth Financial Network, INVEST Financial Corp., National Planning Corp., Securities America Advisors, Securities Service Network, SII Investments and Walnut Street Securities.
Mike Helgesen, Securities Service Network: The United States government stole my summer. My clients were concerned about the debt ceiling debate, and it was such a huge time suck. It was a waste of time and a waste of productivity.
Marc Anderson, Securities America Advisors (left): Sure, the government stole my summer, but it made my fall. Once the debate was settled and the uncertainty went away, the markets positively responded and my clients could once again concentrate on growing their portfolios.
Mark Singer, Commonwealth Financial Network: But from a financial planning perspective, events like that are always an opportunity to be proactive. If you're not boilerplate and can tell them specifically how it affects them, they appreciate it.
Scott Campbell, INVEST Financial Corp. (left): What clients are struggling with is fear. They have the loss of equity in their home; they're concerned about the American dream and whether it can still be achieved. It's the totality of the information they receive that overwhelms them, and they look to us to be the filter. It used to be all about investment performance, but not anymore.
Rex Rexroad, Commonwealth Financial Network: This might sound a little self-serving, but there's really no one to turn to like the financial advisor. Guidance and leadership in life typically revolves around money. They might have a priest, accountant and lawyer. But no other professional is at the crux of where those issues meet. No one is at the same level of depth in terms of the client's situation like a financial advisor.
Campbell: It's so important to seek out collaborative relationships with CPAs and other professionals if for no other reason than it minimizes the inconsistency of the message the client receives.
Matt Hanshaw, National Planning Corp.: But clients are much more sophisticated than they were even five or 10 years ago. After 2008, there's a sense of "we've been through this before. I know what you're going to tell me, but I just want to hear it from you." They still want that reassurance.
Rexroad: And it's not so much the risk of volatility they're dealing with; it's the risk of not reaching their goals.
Scott Holstein, Walnut Street Securities (left): But when clients look at the financial services industry, it's like financial advisors kind of have the nicest house on a condemned street. They're not happy with the industry overall, but still trust their advisor. That's why it's important not to tear down the competition, because it ultimately hurts us all.
Singer, (left): Managing expectations used to be about a range of return. Now it's about managing expectations about retirement. Are you 80% to 90% on track for retirement?
Holstein: The good thing is that because of technology and access to information, we're able to provide institutional-level quality to the retail client. But they have disappointment fatigue. They're wondering how long they'll have to wait and hang in there for the markets to come back.
Rexroad: That's why the term "planner" may be old, but it's coming back.
Helgesen: Managing money is interesting. Managing money in the context of human behavior is infinitely more interesting.
Jim Person, SII Investments (left): The challenge is in an honest evaluation of client needs and matching it with solutions. The concern was always dying too young. Now the concern is living too long. The need for a distribution of 30 years is something that must be carefully communicated or they'll be too overwhelmed and will shut down.
Singer: Exactly. It's important not to douse their hopes and dreams.
They can continue in the same lifestyle maybe for 10 years, but then it must be re-evaluated.
Hanshaw: And with the economy struggling, we're seeing a rise in the number of individuals that fall into the Sandwich Generation, those that are 55 to 60 years old that have children moving in while at the same time they have to care for elderly parents.
Holstein: Now it's about accumulation, distribution and leaving a legacy. How is it all accomplished?
Person: Traditionally, they've had confidence in Social Security and a pension. But living longer requires more money, so the 401(k) and Social Security now have to do the trick.
Helgesen (left): Ken Dycthwald was wrong. Almost no one thinks about the "next chapter" of retirement, except in fairy books. They just want to know when they can retire.
Campbell: It used to be retirement happened between age 60 and 65. Now retirement will happen in their 70s.
Person: But we also have the socio-economic changes that have to be dealt with. People are staying longer in their jobs. I worry about people who say "don't worry about those people who have to work longer." Income disparity is a real problem.
Rexroad (left): There are so many variables, but we have a passion that allows us to see what's coming down the pike. We're like pilots that must constantly course correct.
Singer: We once thought that we were great money managers. But performance is generic. We have to manage the client's unique issues. That is what makes us unique.
Person: But encouraging them to take action is not enough. We are morally responsible to advise clients on the consequences of the actions they take. Just as if we were a doctor or lawyer.


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The top 10 schools are…
Dec 28, 2010
The Education Ministry has released a ranking of ten high performing schools for classes VI, X and XII.
The top 10 primary schools are Yaragla Community Primary school in Monggar, Dagor Community Primary School in Pemagtashel, Nobgang Community Primary School and Khuruthang Middle Secondary School in Punakha, Sunshine, Early Learning Centre, Phuensum Primary and Druk Schools in Thimphu, Nimshong Community Primary School in Trongsa, and Namchala Lower Secondary School in Dagana.
In the middle secondary standard, Kanglung Middle Secondary School, Trashigang Middle Secondary School, Rangjung and Jigme Sherubling Higher Secondary Schools (HSS) in Trashigang and Ugyen Academy in Punakha, Monggar HSS, Bayling HSS in Trashiyangtse, Yangchenphu in Thimphu, Nangkor HSS in Pemagatshel and Khangkhu MSS in Paro have been identified as the top 10 schools.
And in the Higher Secondary Schools category, the top 10 schools are Tashitse HSS in Trashigang, Yangchenphu and Motithang HSS in Thimphu , Drugyal HSS in Paro, Bayling HSS in Tashiyangtse, Bajo HSS in Wangdue, Phuentsholing HSS, Nangkor HSS in Pemagatshel, Monggar HSS and Gelephu HSS.
The Education Minister Lyonpo Thakur Singh Powdyel said the school ranking was adopted by the education ministry to see where different seats of learning stand.
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Happy May Day! No work! No school! Lets take to the streets – march.. and play!!! Children's village will be waiting to play with you at approx 4pm. we will be there to support the March for Dignity and Justice and the many community groups who will be marching with them!!! Look for us near the tennis courts in San Antonio Park! we will have: yoga for families art music leggos, and more!!! We will be there for family fun while all of the rallies and speak out are going … Continued


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Here's a look at the new schedule of release dates for some upcoming movies:
- The Bourne Legacy, starring Jeremy Renner, Edward Norton and Rachel Weisz, will be pushed back a week to August 10th.
- The Babymakers, starring Olivia Munn, Paul Schneider and Aisha Tyler, will open August 3rd.
- Alex Cross, starring Tyler Perry, Rachel Nichols and Matthew Fox, will open a week earlier on October 19th.
- The Big Wedding, starring Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton and Katherine Heigl, will take Alex Cross's previous spot, opening October 26th.
Hit the jump for more on each movie, including why Universal is delaying the opening of their fourth Bourne movie, The Bourne Legacy.
First up from Deadline comes the news that Universal has pushed back the opening date on The Bourne Legacy by a week to soften the box office blow due to The Dark Knight Rises and to avoid competing with Sony's Total Recall, which opens August 3rd. Deadline also reports that the delay has nothing to do with the film's recent reshoots that just wrapped about a week ago. It's worth noting that reshoots on the previous films were commonplace and even a bit chaotic at times; they did fine, pulling in nearly a billion dollars at the box office. Second unit director and stunt coordinator Dan Bradley downplays this as the reason for the delay, saying the reshoots were:
"two days of pickups. There was one shot that we needed to get. It was a beat. It was nothing."
Although Renner is being introduced as a new character in the canon that Matt Damon established in the previous three films, the fourth installment is reportedly tracking well. Positive buzz or not, it makes financial sense to get out from under the shadow of the bat. Here's Universal's official response:
"Just as The Avengers demonstrated marketplace sustainability that well outpaced traditional patterns earlier this summer, the industry expects a similar trajectory for The Dark Knight Rises. Moving one week further from its release will give The Bourne Legacy an even greater opportunity to maximize its opening box office potential. Moving to August 10 will also allow us to extend valuable promotion for the film across all NBCUniversal platforms during the Olympics, which will dominate television and digital audiences beginning July 27. We are excited about this new chapter in our Bourne franchise and confident that August 10 is the right date for our film and for our industry as a whole."
You can watch the trailer for The Bourne Legacy here. Here's the synopsis:
The narrative architect behind the Bourne film series, Tony Gilroy, takes the helm in the next chapter of the hugely popular espionage franchise that has earned almost $1 billion at the global box office: The Bourne Legacy. The writer/director expands the Bourne universe created by Robert Ludlum with an original story that introduces us to a new hero (Jeremy Renner) whose life-or-death stakes have been triggered by the events of the first three films.
For The Bourne Legacy, Renner joins fellow series newcomers Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Stacy Keach and Oscar Isaac, while franchise veterans Albert Finney, Joan Allen, David Strathairn and Scott Glenn reprise their roles.
The following release date changes come courtesy of Box Office Mojo:
Perry hopes to star in an action franchise of his own, in the first installment of the James Patterson novel series. Alex Cross now opens on October 19th, 2012. Check out some images here, followed by the novel's synopsis:
You can't run
Detective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the awful news that a beloved relative has been found brutally murdered. Alex vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that she was mixed up in one of Washington's wildest scenes. And she was not this killer's only victim.
You can't hide
The hunt for her murderer leads Alex and his girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, to a place where every fantasy is possible, if you have the credentials to get in. Alex and Bree are soon facing down some very important, very protected, very dangerous people in levels of society where only one thing is certain–they will do anything to keep their secrets safe.
Alex Cross is your only hope to stay alive
As Alex closes in on the killer, he discovers evidence that points to the unimaginable–a revelation that could rock the entire world. [Amazon]
The Big Wedding will take Alex Cross's spot, now opening a week later on October 26th, 2012. The ensemble comedy also stars Susan Sarandon, Amanda Seyfried, Robin Williams, Ben Barnes and Topher Grace.
Lastly, with a new release date comes the Broken Lizard comedy The Babymakers, opening August 3rd. You can check out the new red-band trailer here and read up on the film's synopsis below:
Official synopsis:
After trying everything to get his wife Audrey pregnant, Tommy Macklin realizes to his horror that he may be "shooting blanks." Terrified that his marriage may fall apart, Tommy recruits his friends to rob a spermbank where he made a deposit years ago. As with any half-baked scheme, everything can and does go wrong, testing the limits of Tommy and Audrey's relationship and showing how far one couple will go in hopes of getting pregnant.


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Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and he's arriving in style atop a 50-foot lighted, musical sleigh.
Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and he's arriving in style atop a 50-foot lighted, musical sleigh.
On Dec. 8 beginning at 5 p.m. at the Corner in Eldred, the Santa Express begins a 50-mile trek bringing smiles to the faces of children in western Sullivan County. On board will be Santa and Mrs. Claus, Rudolph, Frosty, the Gingerbread Man, the Christmas Mouse, the North Pole elves and a host of other Christmas favorites.
The Santa Express also features thousands of lights, lighted reindeer, Christmas decorations, a 10,000-watt generator, and a 2,000-watt sound system.
Once it visits Eldred, the Santa Express heads down Proctor Road to Circle Park in Glen Spey. After stopping there, Santa travels to the River Market in Barryville to greet everyone there before heading to the four corners in Yulan. The final stop is in front of the old school in Narrowsburg at 8 p.m.
At each stop Santa and friends greet the children and parents, hand out cookies and candy canes, and conduct a sing-along with the Snow Queen onboard his sleigh.
For more information, contact Lou Monteleone at 557-3321 or visit facebook.com/santaexpress.


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I'll tell you this much: Waffa Bilal, the dude who attached a camera to the back of his head, is pretty dedicated to this ridiculous art project of his. Surgeons recently needed to remove some pieces in his head because his body rejected one of the three titanium posts implanted there.
He's still planning on continuing the project and currently tying a camera to the back of his neck as his wound heals. Not sure why he just didn't do that from the start. [Chronicle via Pop Sci]


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Respect to mother nature and its creatures,that's way beyond respect
People will soon no longer be allowed to carry parrots, squirrels, cats and ferrets into Arizona restaurants claiming they are service animals, under a new law that restricts the types of animals people can use to help them in public places.
And attempts by some people to claim their pet is providing an emotional-comfort "service," a ruse that has frustrated some restaurant owners, is explicitly forbidden by the law, which goes into effect later this year.
Only two kinds will be recognized service animals for the disabled in Arizona: dogs and miniature horses.
Although the part of the law that names miniature horses as eligible service animals surprised some observers — there was no push from miniature-horse owners in the state to include them — the motivation for the bill was more about excluding other animals.
Rep. Heather Carter, R-Cave Creek, sponsored House Bill 2401 at the request of the Arizona Restaurant Association, whose members said the state's existing law, which broadly recognizes any animal that provides any service, tied their hands when it came to keeping out more exotic creatures.
"We feel the definition of service animal in Arizona is not succinct enough," Sherry Gillespie, government-relations manager with the Arizona Restaurant Association, said during a committee hearing on the bill. "Restaurants try to make every accommodation for the people dining there, but those accommodations must be reasonable."
Gillespie said the U.S. Department of Justice's Americans with Disabilities Act was updated in 2011 to restrict service animals to only dogs and miniature horses and to outline the duties a service animal must perform. Arizona's new law mirrors that, she said.
The new law allows only dogs and miniature horses to be service animals, and only if they are trained and perform work directly related to an individual's disability, such as assisting blind people with navigation, alerting deaf individuals to the presence of people, pulling a wheelchair, alerting owners to the presence of allergens or assisting someone during a seizure.
Gov. Jan Brewer signed it into law in April, and it will go into effect 90 days after the current legislative session ends. It's unclear when that will be.
A few people across the country use miniature horses as service animals, and the Guide Horse Foundation website says it works with such animals.
It was unclear whether anyone in Arizona uses a miniature horse as a service animal, and several miniature-horse owners here said they hadn't heard of such an arrangement.
The horses, however, are used to provide comfort therapy to patients and the elderly.
Marcia and Jimmie Sizemore of Scottsdale have for decades taken their miniature horse, Mountain Dew, age 28, to visit patients at Arizona hospitals and nursing homes. She visits the veterans hospital in Phoenix several times a year.
"We just go from room to room and bring her over to each bed," Marcia Sizemore said. "The patients follow us all around in their wheelchairs. They are really glad to see her."
Marcia said they didn't train Dew, as they call her, to be a therapy horse.
"She just has the right disposition," she said. "And she's been doing it since she was two."
The waist-high horse travels in the back of the couple's van, using a ramp to climb in. She has special rubber shoes she wears so she doesn't slide on the hospital's slick floors, and Marcia carries along plastic bags and a little bucket just in case.
"They say you can house-train them, but I don't know how you'd do it," Marcia said.
Jimmie Sizemore said while Dew has the perfect disposition to be a therapy horse, that's not true across the board for all miniature horses. Each one has his or her own personality. He said he had never heard of someone using a miniature horse as a service animal and wasn't too keen on the idea.
"I wouldn't trust a horse to lead me across the road," he said. "But they are smart. I guess you better have a good trainer."
A restaurateur's bane
Arizona business owners say the value of the new law is in allowing them to keep out animals that clearly aren't service animals.
Roxane Nielsen, who has owned Prescott Brewing Co. for 19 years, had called on legislators to clamp down on the rise in exotic animals being passed off as service animals by restaurant patrons.
"I can't say we've had lions and tigers and bears, but we have had ferrets, parrots and squirrels," she said during a committee hearing. "It used to be we would look the other way as long as there were no problems being created. But now there are problems being created."
She said she's seen a spike in customers trying to bring in pets, particularly dogs, under the guise of being a service animal whose job is to provide "comfort." The new law clearly states that providing comfort, companionship, emotional support or well-being are not recognized as a service.
"This change will prevent ferrets, parrots, cats, alligators, rats and squirrels but still provides for people who need these service animals," she said.
Louis Basile, CEO of Wildflower Bread Co., said he wants to ensure his employees are sensitive to individuals who need service animals. But he said during a committee hearing that there is a lot of abuse of the law.
"There are instances we experience on a regular basis with customers who bring in their animals and allow them to eat off the china," he said. "It's unbelievably disturbing to folks."
Rep. T.J. Shope, R-Coolidge, who manages his family's grocery store in Coolidge, said this has been an issue for grocers, too.
"We take food safety very seriously, and some creatures, in my opinion, are a potential health problem," he said during a hearing.


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The Hacienda Nicholas Bed & Breakfast Inn, more and more of our guests opt to travel with Kindles and iPads rather than books. However, nothing can replace the weight, smell and feel of a real book. For you book-lovers out there who also want a souvenir of Santa Fe history, here is your golden opportunity. From now until March 31, 2011 The Palace of the Governors Book Shop is selling over 1,200 books from their stock of fiction, biography, history and children's books. The books are priced as low as $1, though better titles are up to $20.
The museum is also a great place to learn about the history of Santa Fe, from the Spanish Colonial Period (1540-1821), Mexican (1821-1846), U.S. Territorial (1846-1912 through statehood (1912). You may also want to check out the extensive collection of photo archives (over 800,000 prints, negatives, post cards, etc) documenting the history of New Mexico.
An added bonus - your purchase at the Palace of the Governors helps support the Museum of New Mexico and artists from around the world.
Palace of the Governors
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Open 10am-5pm Tuesday through Sunday ('til 8pm on Fridays).
Open Mondays as well from Memorial Day through Labor Day.
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Mexico Cathedral to Receive Blessed John Paul II Relic
The reliquary, which will contain a vial of blood, will be housed in a life-size wax sculpture of John Paul II.
MEXICO CITY — The Cathedral of the Archdiocese of Mexico City will open its Holy Door on Feb. 9 to receive a first-class relic of Blessed John Paul II, as well as a painting and a skullcap used by the soon-to-be-canonized pope.
The ceremony will mark the beginning of the relic's pilgrimage throughout the archdiocese in order to encourage the faithful to follow the April 27 canonization of Popes John Paul II and John XXIII with deep devotion.
Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera of Mexico City will welcome the faithful before the Mass, after which a life-size wax sculpture of the "Pilgrim Pope" will be put on display.
The sculpture contains a reliquary in the form of a cross on its chest, where a vial containing blood from John Paul II will be kept for veneration by the faithful.
The archdiocese has organized a series of events to take place the week prior to the canonizations, including film festivals, art expositions and concerts, as well as a prayer vigil to be held April 25 at the cathedral.
John Paul II will be canonized with Blessed Pope John XXIII on April 27, Divine Mercy Sunday.


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Madison, Wisconsin: A Disappointing Dud at The Roman Candle
Daniel Zemans, our man in Chicago, checks in with another piece of intel from the road, this time in Madison, Wisconsin. —The Mgmt.
The Roman Candle
1054 Williamson Street, Madison, WI 53703 (map); (608) 258-2000; theromancandle.com
Pizza Style: Thin
Oven Type: Gas
The Skinny: Creative toppings aren't enough to overcome mediocre everything else
Price: Slices start at $2.75; 12" pies start at $8.99; 12" Specialty Pizzas start at $11.99
In preparation for a trip to Pittsburgh in early May, I turned to the Serious Eats community for pizza advice and ended up discovering Vincent's Pizza Park (reviewed here), a spectacular pizzeria that I never would have found on my own.
For my recent trip to Madison, I decided to try the same tactic and a bunch of helpful Serious Eaters chimed in with advice. A couple popular recommendations, Ian's (Chicago location reviewed here) and Pizza Bruta (reviewed by a Slice reader here), have already gotten coverage on Slice, so I narrowed my choice to Glass Nickel or The Roman Candle.
Both places offer thin crust pies that intrigued me with their massive range of toppings. I'm not a knee-jerk anti-chain eater, but I have to admit, I ultimately went with The Roman Candle because there were so many more Glass Nickel locations.
The flip side of that decision is that in assuming that Glass Nickel suffers from too much delegation in management, what I ultimately did was hold the company's success against it. I don't know if Glass Nickel is better than The Roman Candle, but based on my visit to the latter, I have a hard time imagining that it's worse.
The menu at The Roman Candle is more than a little intriguing. The best-selling pie is the Pestoral: pesto, feta, mozzarella, artichoke hearts, roasted red pepper, kalamata olives and roma tomatoes. Meat eaters might be drawn, as I was, to the name of the Animal Lovers pizza, but will shy away when they discover that, in fact, it comes topped with a garden of vegetables and no meat whatsoever. Carnivores are teased elsewhere on the menu where the meatiest pizza, which comes with bacon, ham, pepperoni, prosciutto and sausage, is named the Dead Man Walking. I settled on The Roman Candle, the restaurant's eponymous pie.
The Roman Candle comes with banana peppers, sausage, and fireworks sauce, one of seven sauces available. In deference to my vegetarian dining companion, only half the pizza was Roman Candle; the other half was Veggie Candle, which includes artichoke instead of sausage. I try to be as positive as I can in these reviews, but after a couple of bites, I have to confess—I was shocked the place had been highly recommended by anyone.
Maybe I caught The Roman Candle on a bad night, but the nicest thing I can say about the pizza is that the mozzarella was good. And when the cheese is the best part of the pizza, there's a problem.
The fireworks sauce was neither particularly explosive nor particularly saucy. I don't know if the sauce was overcooked or they started with insufficiently juicy tomatoes, but it was more like a paste than a sauce. The sausage was fine; nice and porky, but not particularly flavorful and the large chunks left more than a couple of bites without meat. The banana peppers and artichoke were typical jarred versions of each vegetable.
The crust appeared promising, but was unpleasantly chewy. The cornicione is noticeably thicker than the bottom crust, so I assume the dough wasn't rolled through a machine. Maybe it's from the screen it was cooked on, but something was done to the crust that made it less than enjoyable.
For the first time in my life, the best thing I got at a pizzeria was a salad. This spinach salad came with candied walnuts, blue cheese, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers and strawberries, and was topped with a raspberry vinaigrette. In short, it was all one can expect from a midsummer salad from a restaurant that features local ingredients.
Rumor has it the ice cream at The Roman Candle is also quite good, but thanks to a planned stop later that night at the University of Wisconsin's Memorial Union for the school's deservedly famous Babcock ice cream, I can't vouch for the accuracy of the rumor.
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You can help reduce your colon cancer risk, expert says
(HealthDay)—Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States, but there are ways you can help prevent it, an expert says.
"Colorectal cancer surpasses breast and prostate cancers as a leading cause of cancer death in men and women," Dr. James Yoo, an assistant professor of surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, said in a university news release.
"It is largely preventable with early screening and detection," said Yoo, who also is chief of the colon and rectal surgery program.
He outlined a number of ways to reduce your risk of colorectal cancer:
- Get regular colorectal cancer screenings beginning at age 50 if you are at normal risk. If you are at higher risk—due to a personal or family history of colorectal cancer, other cancers or inflammatory bowel disease—talk to your doctor about screenings before age 50.
- Eat between 25 and 30 grams of fiber each day from fruits, vegetables, nuts, beans, and whole-grain breads and cereals. You should also eat a low-fat diet. Colorectal cancer has been associated with diets high in saturated fat. Be sure your diet includes foods with folate, such as leafy green vegetables.
- If you drink alcohol, do so in moderation. Quit smoking. Alcohol and tobacco combined are linked to colorectal and other gastrointestinal cancers.
- Get at least 20 minutes of exercise a day three to four times a week. Even moderate exercise such as walking, gardening or climbing stairs may help reduce your risk of colorectal cancer.
- Tell your doctor about any persistent symptoms, such as blood in the stool, a change in bowel habits, weight loss, stools that are narrower than usual, abdominal pains or other gastrointestinal problems.
- Maintain a healthy weight. Obesity may raise the risk of colorectal cancer.
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Use custom JavaScript in AMP pages
AMP strives to provide a consistently great experience to all users across the web by encouraging the use of high-functioning and seamless components that are ready to go out of the box.
Some web experiences require a high amount of customization that goes beyond the state binding capabilities of
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AMP pages support custom JavaScript through the
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<!doctype html>   ...   ... <amp-script layout="container" src="https://example.com/myfile.js">
Initial content that can be modified from JavaScript
 </amp-script> ...
<amp-script> component registers a Web Worker to run on a separate thread than the main page. The Web Worker is given its own copy of the DOM through
amp-script use of Worker DOM. This allows the Web Worker to use JavaScript libraries, such as React and jQuery, without modification.
amp-script component sends messages between the Web Worker thread and the main thread, causing any changes the user makes on the main DOM to be echoed on the Web Worker's false DOM. In turn, the Web Worker can then update the false DOM, which is reflected on the main DOM.
Custom scripts caching
The AMP cache serves custom JavaScript files inserted with
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The AMP cache proxies the JavaScript files and then delivers them. Users can expect the same performance experience from a page using
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To guarantee AMP pages will load consistently fast and with smooth UIs, limitations exist on
JavaScript inside the Web Worker allows minimal change to the DOM on load. Changes allowed during this phase are:
- Registering event handlers.
- Splitting a TextNode into multiple TextNodes, to allow for frameworks that require it.
The DOM inside
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For example, if starting with the code below:
<text> Hello world </text>
Worker DOM permits minor changes in structure but not content:
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DOM manipulation
For user experience and security reasons,
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User interaction
When a user interacts with elements wrapped inside an
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fetch. Here DOM changes can be requested after the response is returned to the user and for less than one second afterward. If a script mutates the DOM outside of a permitted window, this will result in a fatal error and the
<amp-script> component will terminate the Web Worker. A terminated
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Unprompted changes
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Script size
AMP enforces a limit of 150 kilobytes of custom JavaScript on each page. This limit is shared among all
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Any DOM elements the custom JavaScript files wish to interact with must be wrapped inside the
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<amp-script> component considers
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If you were to call
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Hello!

 <amp-script layout="container" src="customjs.js"> </amp-script>

It would result in this:

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Event triggers
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API restrictions
Some synchronous methods are disallowed in
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Element.getBoundingClientRect()). Because
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Promise instead of returning the result directly.
View this chart to see WorkerDOM supported APIs.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - NATO said three of its servicemembers were killed Sunday in eastern Afghanistan but provided no further details.
The statement did not provide a nationality nor details of the type of attack that killed the three.
Troops from various nations serve in eastern Afghanistan.
The deaths bring to 103 the number of foreign troops killed so far this year. Of those, 78 were from the United States.
Foreign combat troops are due to leave Afghanistan at the end of 2014.
In other violence Saturday and Sunday, authorities said four explosions in the Charcheno district of southern Uruzgan province killed seven civilians.
Uruzgan provincial police chief spokesman Fared Ayel said a father and two of his children were killed Sunday when the motorcycle they were on hit a roadside bomb. He said that another three bombs in the same district on Saturday killed four people and wounded three.
Violence has been increasing around Afghanistan, especially in the east and south, as insurgents try to take advantage of the withdrawal of foreign troops to regain lost territory.


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The importance of flexibility / Tools to increase flexibility
A variety of LEED studies have determined that more flexibility in the management of programmes is required for labour market policy to contribute fully to local strategies for economic growth and social inclusion.
In particular, the LEED study on Integrating Employment, Skills and Economic Development of 11 countries, published by the OECD as Breaking out of policy silos (2010) found that flexibility in the management of government policies is the most important factor affecting policy integration at the local level.
When local organisations are not able to adapt their policies, often little is achieved when it comes to implementing a joint local strategy. This issue was discussed in depth at a conference attended by ministers and other high level policy officials in Venice in 2008 on The Twin Challenges of Labour Market Policy. At this conference, labour ministers from OECD countries in collaboration with the OECD Employment and Social Policy division, analysed the local flexibility of labour market policy in 25 OECD countries, and adopted the Venice Action Statement.
LEED has implemented a study on "Managing Flexibility and Accountability" to build on these findings. Canada, Belgium (Flanders), Denmark and The Netherlands each participated. Click here for individual country reports, a synthesis report and a report on accountability in decentralised employment service regimes.
The way in which policies are managed varies greatly between OECD countries. More traditional systems of public administration emphasise legal and fiscal accountability, while countries which have moved towards a "new public management" approach give greater weighting to processes such as decentralisation and managerial discretion. Governments are often wary of awarding greater flexibility to local agencies for fear of reducing accountability and prompting a deterioration in the quality of service provision. Thus national governments need to be encouraged to experiment with promoting new forms of horizontal accountability locally.
Some tools being used to promote a culture of greater flexibility, as will be examined in the LEED study, are as follows:
- Negotiating targets - consulting at the local level when setting government targets;
- Increasing the use of outcome targets as opposed to output targets;
- Establishing common and cross-sector targets which incentivise local actors to work together;
- Boards and scrutiny panels which allow a wider group of local actors to scrutinise the delivery of national programmes;
- Flexible funding schemes and special funds to encourage creative solutions at the local level; and
- Incremental responsibility - devolving decision making where accountability risk is judged to be minimal.
For further information please contact Ms Francesca Froy [Policy Analyst, OECD].
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There's a chance of snow possible Tuesday morning, but whether or not you see the white stuff will depend on where you are. We asked Storm Team 4 Chief Meteorologist Doug Kammerer what he expects for Tuesday morning.
Q: We've heard that there may be snow tomorrow morning in some places. Will we see it in the D.C. metro area?
Doug: In the D.C. metro area, it will be all rain. I'm not worried about snow in the I-95 corridor. But well west and in the I-81 corridor, and in areas of elevation, there's a good chance of seeing some snow or a rain and snow mix.
There could be accumulation in the West Virginia panhandle and in extreme northern Montgomery County and in extreme northwest Loudoun County.
Q: How cold is it going to be in that rain?
Doug: I think we're looking at highs in the D.C. area in the mid-40s. In the morning, it will be right around 40.
Q: You said you expect a snowier winter this winter. Is that the case?
Doug: Yes, I think we'll be able to get a few [snow events].
CLICK HERE for Doug's Winter Weather forecast.
Q: As a meteorologist, are you more concerned about snow or freezing rain? Which has the greater public impact?
Doug: It always depends on the amount. But with freezing rain, a tenth of an inch at the wrong time, and you could have a problem.
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Q: What weather are you expecting after this cold snap?
Doug: After this, the pattern changes completely. We will go from where we were in most of November so far, with below average temperatures, to average temperatures if not above average temperatures at the end of the week. We need to see the rain, but it looks like we are going into a relatively dry period.


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I'm back!!!
It's been such a long wait, over 2 months now that I haven't been able to use my camera. I still don't have an ETA on when it will be fixed so I bought a new camera, had to be done. Anyways, I'm so excited to have something again and I hope you don't mind that I will probably be posting a lot of my own photos for a while.
For those of you who follow me on Instagram, these aren't all that new, but since I've changed up some areas of the house since I last shared on the blog.
Hope everyone is enjoying their week!
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Looks fantastic!!! <3 Aww... <3ReplyDelete
Nice to have you back! Missed your great photos from your amazing looking home :)ReplyDelete
So beautiful and simple style, your place is amazing!ReplyDelete
hi there! curious, where is that alphabet print from? it is awesome. love it all!ReplyDelete
Oh..to see the pictures larger make your home shines even more. So so great.ReplyDelete
I'm so excited for all your new and your own post. Your quite an inspiration of mine.ReplyDelete
Love love love the puppy print. where is that from?ReplyDelete
originals are better than posting the same photos as everyone else ;)ReplyDelete
what kind of camera did you get? i'm thinking of upgrading...
I'm dying over the Ikea PS wall lamp! Love it. Need to run out to get it for our bedroom (in black). Would you say that it is a good reading lamp? Thanks!ReplyDelete
You're place it gorgeous! I'd love to know where you got the wall-mounted book case to the right of the sofa.ReplyDelete
So nice, wonderful that you are back!ReplyDelete
welcome home! greetings from berlinReplyDelete
I'm also in love with that alphabet print! Where is it from?ReplyDelete
I don't think it's possible for you to post enough pictures of your home!!! I get so excited when I see your posts in IG (and Deborah's, ha ha!)ReplyDelete
I love everything. Although, there is a special place in my heart for the doggy print. Looks like the fashionista version of my very own pup, where is it from?ReplyDelete
I love that Dachshund print! My pup Lucy looks just like that! Where did you get it? I have really enjoyed looking through your blog!ReplyDelete
Where did you get the mountain print? It's beautiful!ReplyDelete
Where is the blanket over the sofa from?? IN LOVE with it and I've seen it in both white and black. . .ReplyDelete
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